Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Cheiracanthiidae
Other Common Names
Prowling Spiders, Longlegged Sac Spiders, Sac Spiders
Author
Wagner,1887
Sightings Overview
There have been 187 confirmed sightings of Cheiracanthiidae (Prowling Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 21, 2020 by Spider ID member shay6198. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 187 sightings because of certain Cheiracanthiidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 13% of the time, Cheiracanthiidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 164)
- Sex: 14 female and 58 male.
- Environment: Cheiracanthiidae has been sighted 40 times outdoors, and 126 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (29). Low foliage (4). High foliage (2). Ground layer (2). Under rock or debris (1). Saltwater (1). Desert area (1).
Location and Range
Cheiracanthiidae (Prowling Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United States.
Cheiracanthiidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Cheiracanthiidae has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 13
- February: 9
- March: 16
- April: 33
- May: 71
- June: 13
- July: 5
- August: 2
- September: 13
- October: 7
- November:
- December: 3